ISBN:
9781405140331 (alk. paper)
,
140514033X (alk. paper)
,
9781405140348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
,
1405140348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
,
1405182091
,
9781405182096
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 216 p.
,
ill., maps
,
24 cm
DDC:
320.941
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Professional employees in government / Great Britain
;
Local government / Great Britain
;
State, The
;
Staatsvorming
;
Openbaar bestuur
;
Overheidspersoneel
;
Overheidsinstellingen
;
Territorium
;
Politisches System
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Verfassung
;
Regionalverwaltung
;
Politik
;
Politisches System
;
Regionalverwaltung
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Verfassung
;
Great Britain / Politics and government
;
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Verfassung
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Geschichte
;
Großbritannien
;
Politisches System
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Geschichte
;
Großbritannien
;
Regionalverwaltung
;
Geschichte
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-207) and index
,
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: state personnel and the reproduction of state forms -- Analysing an emergent state: state actors and a territorial state apparatus -- Thinking about the stateø -- Medieval and early modern political theory: conceptualising political authority -- Weber and the bureaucratic machine of the modern state -- The human geographies of strategic-relational state theory -- Exploring the networked state -- Bringing it all together: analysing an emergent state -- Peopling the medieval state -- A case of stating the obvious? -- People and the feudal state -- State leaders and the emergence of medieval state forms in the British Isles -- Local government and the validation and contestation of state forms -- The medieval state: different not worse? -- Embodying early modern state consolidation -- Peopling the central state apparatus -- The body politic: JPs and the political constitution of England and Wales -- Shaping and steering the local state -- State personnel and the embodiment of early modern state consolidation -- The state of high modernity: the age of the inspector -- The nineteenth-century revolution in government -- The age of the inspector -- Leonard Horner and the regulation of factory production -- Embodying a tentative state consolidation -- Breaking-up: people and the late modern UK state -- The challenges of executive devolution in the UK -- New devolved organizations, new organizational cultures -- State personnel and the øjoining upø of regional governance -- Territorial identities and the reproduction of devolution -- Devolution in prospect -- Conclusions: peopling the state -- Bibliography
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